PlayGround presents Season 28

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

Topic: “KEEP MOVING FORWARD“

January 24, 2022 7pm PT

Simulcast & On-Demand

Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land We Inhabit

PlayGround acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush (RAH-my-toosh) Ohlone (oh-LOW-nee) and Lisjan (lih-SHAH-n) Ohlone, the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula and East Bay, respectively. As the past and present Indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone and Lisjan have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. We recognize the historic injustice of the forcible removal of the Ohlone people from their ancestral lands, and that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the Ancestors, Elders and Relatives of the Ramaytush and Lisjan Communities and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples. We honor the storytellers of the Ohlone and are grateful for our ability to share and uplift Indigenous stories and those of other historically marginalized communities.

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PlayGround’s Anti-Racist Policy

PlayGround recognizes the impact of racial oppression within society and the American Theater and that we have been complicit in White Supremacy culture. Our goal is to co-create safety for our community by identifying and interrupting instances of racism and all forms of oppression when we witness them, through specific actions rooted in the principles of anti-racism and accessibility. In its endeavor to address the implications of our history, PlayGround is committed to its compliance with the following fundamental rights:

• The recognition of inherent dignity and worth of each human being.
• The recognition of equality of all human beings.
• Recognition of rights of ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic and religious groups.
• Equality and non-discrimination.

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White Card
by Christian Wilburn
Directed by Kimberly Ridgeway
Marcus………….Christiano Delgado
Sharon…………….Maryssa Wanlass
Wally…………………Douglas Giorgis
Dad……………………Aldo Billingslea

New Year
by Anne Yumi Kobori
Directed by Tessa Corrie
Hughes……………….Ron Chapman
Jude………………..Eiko Yamamoto

Stuck
by Madeleine Butler
Directed by Emilie Talbot
Abby…………..Stephanie Prentice
Gwen……………………..Lisa Morse

Ella at the Houston Philharmonic
by Monique Hafen Adams
Directed by Michael French
Ella Fitzgerald…Leontyne Mbele-Mbong
Norman Granz………………Brian Herndon
Officer Wyatt……..Michael Barrett Austin
Officer Daniels………………………Brian Levi

Arpilleras
by Justin P. Lopez
Directed by Jon Tracy
Cristian……………..Bacilio Mendez II
Daniela………………………….L. Duarte
Anabel………………..Annette Oliveira

Just Keep Swimming
by Sam Hurwitt
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Tib…………….Cathleen Riddley
Burr………………..Rosie Hallett
Ron……………….Louel Senores

Stage Manager: Sarah Gasser

This live stream is produced under a SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement.

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group,
and an Associate Member of the National New Play Network (NNPN).

People’s Choice Award

Following tonight’s performance, we invite your participation in this month’s People’s Choice Award. Through the People’s Choice Award, our audience can play a direct impact in furthering the career of a promising new playwright. To vote, make a People’s Choice Award tax-deductible donation on behalf of your favorite play(s)/playwright(s) from the evening. Every donated dollar counts as a vote while directly supporting PlayGround’s award-winning incubator programs.

Cast your vote for your favorite play(s) by making a People’s Choice donation via Zelle (info@playground-sf.org), Venmo (our account ID is @playgroundsf and if they ask for the last four digits of my phone, it’s 8541) or on our website at https://tickets.playground-sf.org/TheatreManager/1/online?donationquick=16 (you can also visit the Monday Night PlayGround page for the People’s Choice donation button). Add a note/memo with your gift to indicate your favorite play(s) or email your selection to boxoffice@playground-sf.org.

At the end of the week, we’ll tally up the top vote-getter and automatic semi-finalist for our season-ending Best of PlayGround. It’s a powerful way of showing your support for new writers and their work, while helping PlayGround continue doing what we do!

BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

MADELEINE BUTLER‘s (Stuck), she/her, Monday Night PlayGround productions include A Beautiful Evening, The Story of Our Lives (People’s Choice Award), The River God (Best of PlayGround 2016), The Last Pirogue, and Beshert. Her short plays have also been staged by PCSF, FABUM (Washington, D.C.), and 3 Girls Theatre, including an episode of a collaborative serial radio drama. She attended the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in 2021 and is separately workshopping a full-length play inspired by a prompt from Monday Night PlayGround.

MONIQUE HAFEN ADAMS (Ella at the Houston Philharmonic), she/her, is overjoyed to have her first piece chosen for Playground this month. New to writing, Adams can usually be seen on stage. Acting credits include productions at ACT, Theatreworks, SF Playhouse, San Jose Stage Company, or Center REP, among others. She has worked locally as a casting director and teaches through her own private vocal studio. She thanks her husband and her daughter for their constant inspiration.

SAM HURWITT (Just Keep Swimming), he/him, is a longtime Bay Area arts journalist who currently writes for Bay Area News Group and the Marin Independent Journal. Sam has been a member of the PlayGround Writers Pool since 2017 and had a short play included in 2019’s Best of PlayGround 23. His trilogy of full-length plays about Helen of Troy, Penelope, and Medea (ELLEN’S UNDONE, THE WEAVERS, and KILL YOUR DARLINGS) had staged readings in the San Francisco Olympians Festival, and he’s had several 10-minute comedies produced in PianoFight’s ShortLived and Pint Sized Plays.

ANNE YUMI KOBORI (New Year), she/her, is a Japanese-American theatre artist. She has written multiple short plays for production: The Art of Suffrage (Best of PlayGround 25), Coward’s Flame, Give Me the Sky, Two Detectives are Better Than One (MondayNightPlayGround), Simulation (Pear Theatre), Roses in the Desert (Dragon Theatre) and The Disappearance of Betty La Rose (Neighborhood Stories). Her full-length plays Seeds and Every Day Alice have premiered with Utopia Theatre Project. Currently, Anne is a co-writer for Braided, in development with Theatre of Yugen, and script conspirator for the ACT MFA program’s production of Neo Symposium. www.anneyumikobori.com

JUSTIN P. LOPEZ (Arpilleras), he/him, is an actor, singer, writer, and boba-milk-tea enthusiast, who seeks true connection and humanity in each script and song. Recent acting credits include the world premieres of Kiss My Aztec! (Berkeley Repertory Theatre) and Unbreakable by Andrew Lippa (SFGMC). As a writer, Justin’s work has been featured by several theatres in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. His new play, The Re-Education of Fernando Morales, was a finalist for the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Find out what else Justin is up to at www.justinplopez.com

CHRISTIAN WILBURN (White Card), he/him, is a playwright, author, poet and actor. His play “I’m Back” was selected for Best of Playground 24, and he is the recipient of two People’s Choice Awards from Monday Night Playground. Christian’s poetry was featured in the Department of Defense’s Yellow Ribbon Resiliency Kits. He is currently a member of the Playground Playwright’s Residency Program and is completing is MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. In college, Christian’s play Love_Stories made its world premiere as part of the University of Santa Clara’s mainstage season at the Fess Parker Theatre. His writing focuses on modernity, youth, and fusing the surreal with the hyper real while adding touches of humor. In the rare time Christian isn’t writing he is acting, playing basketball and encouraging young writers. He lives in San Francisco without any cute pets, but he is working on it.

ACTORS

MICHAEL BARRETT AUSTIN (Ella at the Houston Philharmonic, “Officer Wyatt”), he/him, most recently appeared in A Christmas Carol at Center Rep. Other (pre-pandemic) theatre appearances include As You Like It (SF Shakespeare Festival), Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (42nd Street Moon) and The Elephant Man (Dr. Frederick Treves) at Hillbarn Theatre. He toured the country with The National Theatre for Children and Italy with Shakespeare at Stinson, and has appeared on television, film and in countless commercials. He is a member of TheatreFirst, Just Theater and PlayGround and proud husband of Emily and father to Lucille. www.michaelbarrettaustin.com

ALDO BILLINGSLEA (White Card, “Dad”), he/him, a long-time PlayGround Company Member, has worked with PlayGround as actor, director, script reader and board member. As an actor, he has worked throughout the Bay with Cal Shakes, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, Center Rep, and Marin Shakespeare. He has served on boards with Arabian Shakespeare, Gritty City Youth Repertory and the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre where he also served as Interim Artistic Director. Aldo is the Father William J. Rewak S.J. Professor of Theatre Arts at Santa Clara University.

RON CHAPMAN (New Year, “Hughes”), he/him, is a writer and actor who believes in the power and necessity of storytelling. He last appeared as Pericles in Pericles, Prince of Tyre with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and is honored to be making his first appearance with PlayGround.

CHRISTIANO (CHACHI) DELGADO (White Card, “Marcus”), he/him, is super excited to introduce “Marcus” to you! He is a Bay Area actor and also born in raised in the Bay. He is currently in “I, Too, Sing America” with SFBATCO. And he would love to thank Youth Musical Theatre Company, his family, and friends for all of their love and support!

L. DUARTE (Arpilleras, “Daniela”), they/them, is a director, actor, playwright whose recent projects include: Julius Caesar with PacRep, Cry of Curs with Tabard Theatre, The Review with Theatre Rhinoceros , Helen! With Theatre of Yugen & The King of Cuba with CentralWorks. They have also worked with Willows Theatre Co, Berkeley Rep., Crowded Fire, Playwrights Foundation, Bay Area Children’s Theatre and various others. Duarte is a graduate of UCLA, UCSC, and has trained with A.C.T. and Shakespeare & Co. Duarte is a founding member of Latinx Mafia, a Bay Area collective of Latinx Teatristas, who work to ensure Latinx stories are valued and accurately represented. Find a full range of work by Duarte at Casting Networks https://app.castingnetworks.com/talent/public-profile/d69eed18-24bd-11ec-8124-c9bb66a47a51

DOUGLAS GIORGIS (White Card, “Wally”), he/him, is a proud company member who has been working professionally around the country for the past 20 years.

ROSIE HALLETT (Just Keep Swimming, “Burr”), she/her, is the current Playground Women Leaders Fellow for Acting. Those with good memories may remember her pre-pandemic performances in Mother of the Maid at Marin Theatre Company and Top Girls and Men on Boats at ACT! Her recent work has been mostly on-camera, in the short films The Circle of 13 and Us + Them and in commercials.

BRIAN HERNDON (Ella at the Houston Philharmonic, “Norman Granz”), he/him, is an inaugural PlayGround Company member and has been performing with PlayGround for over 20 years. He just finished playing Scrooge in SCROOGE IN LOVE at 6th Street Playhouse last month. In pre-pandemic times, Brian enjoyed performing at Marin Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, City Lights Theater Company, Central Works, and other theatres across the Bay Area. Stay safe and may we all enjoy live theatre again soon!

BRIAN LEVI (Ella at the Houston Philharmonic, “Officer Daniels”), he/him, has been seen at theatres all over the Bay Area for many years, most recently in Below Sycamore at the Shelton in SF and Embers with Anton’s Well in Berkeley. Next up will be The Square Root of a Sonnet at City Lights in SJ with Bay Area Drama Company. In a former life, Brian was a software engineer, but now he is pursuing stage and film full time.

LEONTYNE MBELE-MBONG (Ella at the Houston Philharmonic, “Ella Fitzgerald”), she/her, is delighted to return to PlayGround. Recent shows: Half-Life of Marie Curie with TheatreSquared in Arkansas and King Lear live streamed with SF Shakes. Other favorites: Bull in a China Shop, Temple, and Breakfast with Mugabe with the Aurora; title role in Medea (TBA Award), Cleopatra in Antony & Cleopatra (TBA Award Finalist), and Lady M in Macbeth with African-American Shakespeare Company; Watch on the Rhine with Guthrie/Berkeley Rep, Top Girls with Shotgun Players, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Fences; Andromache, Candide, Richard III (3 times), Twelfth Night, and Intimate Apparel (Mayme; ARTY Award, best supporting actress). www.leontynembele-mbong.com

BACILIO MENDEZ II (Arpilleras, “Cristian”), he/him, despite best efforts, is not a ghost; someday though.

LISA MORSE (Stuck, “Gwen”), she/her, is so happy to playing with the talents folks at PlayGround and thanks everyone for tuning in and helping to keep theatre going during this crazy time.

ANNETTE AMELIA OLIVEIRA (Arpilleras, “Anabel”), she/her, grew up in the Bronx with her Puerto Rican Mom, her Portuguese Dad, her Irish and Jewish best friends and her family of many colors. She’s performed on stages in Manhattan, Boston, Hartford, San Francisco, Marin, Hayward and El Cerrito. She’s Zoom-acted through the pandemic in countless shows, the last-best being Running for My Life about the January 6 insurrection. She’s also recording audiobooks of the Latinx-themed, Spanish-language-using stories that weren’t around when she was a kid.

STEPHANIE PRENTICE (Stuck, “Abby”), she/her, is a Bay Area native, and has been a proud AEA member for over 20 years. She is frequently seen in Monday Night PlayGround, appeared in Best of PlayGround 19 and 20, and has performed in three full-length Festival of New Works plays. Stephanie has been a PlayGround company member since 2015, serves on the Board of Directors, and is an Associate Producer. She is also the Patron Services Director and Casting Associate for TheatreFIRST in Berkeley. Most importantly, she is the proud mother of two wonderful kids.

CATHLEEN RIDDLEY (Just Keep Swimming, “Tib”), she/her, most recently appeared as Maria in Twelfth Night at SF Playhouse. She has appeared at Cal Shakes, Magic Theatre, ACT, TheatreWorks, and Shotgun Players (playing every role in Hamlet – seriously), among many others. She is an alumna of The Juilliard School, a certified ASL Interpreter and has an MA from UPenn. Cathleen is a member of Making Good Trouble, a cohort of theatre artists in partnership with Authentic Arts & Media, whose goal is to empower Bay Area artists and staff to become anti-racism trainers.

LOUEL SENORES (Just Keep Swimming, “Ron”), he/him, is happy to be part of another Monday Night PlayGround, even if it’s just on zoom! He’s signed on for a couple of SM gigs that’ll take him thru the end of June, so this might be the last time he’ll get to act for a bit, but he hopes you’ll check out “Water by the Spoonful” at SF Playhouse and “Balikbayan Box” at TheatreFIRST. Shout out to David, the best friend and roommate ever <3 LouelSenores.com

MARYSSA WANLASS (White Card, “Sharon”), she/they, is an actor, director, and educator, with an emphasis on social justice and classical theatre. Bay Area stage appearances include SF Shakes (As You Like It, Hamlet, and Winter’s Tale), CalShakes (As You Like It), San Jose Stage (Persuasion), Livermore Shakespeare Festival (As You Like It, Hamlet, Merry Wives of Windsor), Center REPertory Company (Enchanted April, Witness for the Prosecution), Woman’s Will (Much Ado About Nothing, Good Person of Szechuan). They have directed locally for Utopia Theatre Project, PlayGroundSF, Shotz, and regionally for Advice to the Players.

EIKO YAMAMOTO‘s (New Year, “Jude”), she/they, recent credits: Shoshana in December (Z Space) new queer Hanukkah musical, stage reading; The 1940’s Radio Hour (Hillbarn Theatre); The Book of Will (Foothill Theatre Arts); Working (Palo Alto Players); Folktales From Around The World (Silicon Valley Shakespeare); Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Montalvo Arts). Other credits: Sarom, world premiere of Downtown Crossing (Company One); Sugar u/s, Letter Writer #2 u/s in Tiny Beautiful Things (San Francisco Playhouse); Meiko in Eureka Day (Spreckels Theatre Company). They’ve worked with Berkeley Rep, African-American Shakespeare, Pear Theatre, The Dragon, and PianoFight. Graduate of UCLA. eikoyamamoto.com, @eikoyh

DIRECTORS

TESSA CORRIE (New Year), she/her, is a Queer and Latinx theater director based in the Bay Area. Her work is grounded in creating space for marginalized and underrepresented communities and narratives. She is a company member, ambassador, and this year’s Women Leaders Directing Fellow at PlayGround SF. Her credits include work at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Center REPertory Company, HillbarnTheatre, Pear Theatre, Shotgun Players, TheatreFirst, The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, More Más Marami Arts, Poltergeist Theatre Project, PianoFight, AmiosWest, and Our Digital Stories.

MICHAEL FRENCH (Ella at the Houston Philharmonic), he/him, is originally from London, England, and he is a writer, director, and actor. He has written the Ovation award winning play ‘The Rainy Season,’ collaborated with Tiger Lion Arts on the much acclaimed ‘The Buddha Prince;’ and directed over forty-five plays in London, New York, and the Bay area. Michael is currently writing his first collection of short stories entitled, ‘Babble.’

JIM KLEINMANN (Just Keep Swimming; Artistic Director & Co-Founder), he, co-founded PlayGround in 1994, along with playwright Brighde Mullins and director Denise Shama, and has served as Artistic Director since 1996. For PlayGround, he has provided artistic and administrative leadership for the past twenty-four seasons, developing PlayGround’s unique array of new playwright and new play incubator programs, including Monday Night PlayGround, the PlayGround Festival of New Works, the full-length play Commissioning Initiative, the New Play Production Fund, Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays, and most recently the Innovator Incubator.  For PlayGround, he has directed more than one hundred short and full-length plays, including works by Garret Jon Groenveld, Aaron Loeb, Geetha Reddy, Lauren Yee, Katie May, and many others. Recent directing and dramaturgy credits include David Steele’s Vignettes on Love and Ruben Grijalva’s Value Over Replacement. He is a veteran arts administrator with more than thirty years of experience, including stints leading Traveling Jewish Theatre, Smuin Ballet and Berkeley Symphony, and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

KIMBERLY RIDGEWAY (White Card), she/her, has been working professionally as a director, actor, playwright, and producer in theater for over 25 years. Kim directed projects for many Bay Area Theatre Companies including Dragon Productions Theatre Company (DPTC), Altarena Playhouse, Contra Costa Civic Theatre, Ubuntu Theatre Project, Playwrights Center of San Francisco, Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco Playhouse, and TheatreFirst. Kimberly is the Director of Dragon Eggs for DPTC; a monthly short play incubator series. Kimberly made her Monday Night Playground debut as an actor in 2017 and is excited to now make her directing debut!

EMILIE TALBOT (Stuck), she/they, is a Bay Area based actor, director, teacher, and voice artist. A longtime PlayGround company member, she has acted in and directed numerous Monday Night Playgrounds and directed HEDGE for the 2017 New Works Festival. She has appeared on stages across the country, in a number of independent films, and in a whole slew of commercials, industrials, radio dramas, and video games. She recently finished shooting her boxing debut film, KNOCK OUT. www.emilietalbot.com

JON TRACY (Arpilleras), he/him, works internationally as a director, playwright, designer, educator, filmmaker, and facilitator. He is the recipient of awards from the Kennedy Center Meritorious Achievement Award, North Bay Artys, Marquee Journalists, Ellys, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, and Theatre Bay Area, and has also been honored with the Solano College Theatre Alumni Award. He is a grant recipient from Theatre Bay Area, Shotgun Players’ Bridging the Gap, SUI Generis, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He recently finished his tenure as Artistic Facilitator for TheatreFirst, is the Co-Artistic Director of Groundswell: The International Theatre Intensive, Company Member of both Shotgun Players and PlayGround, Board Member for TheatreFIRST and Awesome Theatre, and is a proud member of SDC, the union for stage directors and choreographers. www.jontracyplays.com

PRODUCTION & STAFF

ANNIE STUART (Associate Artistic Director) has served as casting director for PlayGround for the past twenty-two seasons and in 2005 was named Associate Director. As a freelance casting director, her other credits include Marin Theatre Company, Center REP, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco and Los Angeles Shakespeare Festivals, Brava!, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Z Space, among others. She has taught at San Jose State University, College of Marin, and Marin Theatre Company. For the PlayGround 2021-22 season, Annie will cast more than 300 roles.

SARAH GASSER (Stage Manager) joined PlayGround in 2017 and has staged managed for the Monday Night PlayGround series and PlayGround Festival. She stagemanages for companies around the Bay Area, including Brava and Bay Area Children’s Theatre. In her administrative capacities, she assists with PlayGround’s marketing, social media, communications, and website, as well as serving as assistant to the Artistic Director.

PLAYGROUND, California’s leading playwright incubator, provides unique development opportunities for the Bay Area’s, Los Angeles’ and now New York’s best new playwrights, including the monthly Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, full-length play commissions and support for the production of new plays by local playwrights through the New Play Production Fund. To date, PlayGround has supported over 250 early career playwrights, developing and staging more than 1000 of their original short plays through the Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series and the PlayGround Festival. PlayGround has also commissioned 90 new full-length plays by 60 of these writers through its Commissioning Initiative and, through the innovative New Play Production Fund, has directly facilitated the premiere of 34 plays at theatres of every size, including three that have gone on to NYC and other major theater communities. Most recently, PlayGround renovated and relaunched the former Thick House Theater in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill as Potrero Stage, a state-of-the-art center for new plays, home to PlayGround’s expanding artistic programs and some of the Bay Area’s most distinguished new play developers and producers. Over the past twenty-four years, PlayGround has served to identify some of the most important new local voices for the theatre. PlayGround’s alumni have gone on to win local, national, and international honors for their short and full-length work, including recognition at the Humana Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Lark’s Playwrights’ Week, New York International Fringe Festival, and others. PlayGround received the 2009 Paine Knickerbocker Award for outstanding contributions to Bay Area theatre, 3 BATCC Awards for Best Original Script for PlayGround commissions, a 2014 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (founder of the Tony Awards®), and a 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Visit https://PlayGround-sf.org for more information.

POTRERO STAGE is a 99-seat state-of-the-art performance space located in the heart of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, operated by PlayGround, and serving as home to some of the Bay Area’s leading new play developers and producers, including PlayGround, Crowded Fire, Golden Thread, and Playwrights Foundation, among others. While the venue is closed during the COVID pandemic, Potrero Stage will highlight the best in online programming by PlayGround, Potrero Stage resident companies and other Potrero Stage producers. For more information, visit https://potrerostage.org.

PLAYGROUND CONTRIBUTORS

PlayGround is deeply grateful for the generous contributions of the many individuals, foundations, gifts of $125 or more committed between January 1, 2021 & January 24, 2022.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • American Rescue Plan Act & CARES Act • Art Space Development Corporation • Berkeley Civic Arts • The Bernard Osher Foundation • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • Creative Capacity Fund • The Fleishhacker Foundation • Goldman Sachs • Google • Grants For The Arts • Koret Foundation • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shenson Foundation • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • Zellerbach Family Foundation

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Mr. William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Jerome Joseph Gentes & Michael Bourque, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Craig & Kathy Moody, David Steele, Anonymous

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500–$4,999)

John H. Gilman, Regina S. Guggenheim, Linda Kremer, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Dr. Elaine Baskin & Kenneth R. Krechmer, Mr. William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Thalia Dorwick, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Tish and Steve Harwood, Mrs. Frannie Pope Hohman, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Karen Mauney-Brodek, Nitin, Diane Sampson, Sharon Simpson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, David Cost and Kate Stechschulte, Anonymous (5)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Karen Chakmakian, Paulette Donsavage & Deeje Cooley, Mr. Richard Dixon, Michael Fried, Barbara Goodyear & Stephen Rosenfield, Ruben and Keli Grijalva, Regina S. Guggenheim, Ms. Kathryn A Hecht, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Jofish Kaye & Erin Marie Panttaja, Diane Leonard, Gwen Loeb & Doyle Ott, Ray Riegert, Michele and John Ruskin, Nancy Spencer & Hardy Callcott, Oren & Justin Stevens, Mr. Malachy Walsh, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Maury Zeff

PATRON ($250-$499)

Sharon Baldwin, Wendy Bear, Cass Brayton, Ruth & Robert Brayton, In memory of Susan Bruett, Karen Catlin, Lily L Chow, Laurie Cohen, David Cramer, Ms. Doris Davenport, Mr. Richard Davis – Lowell, Maggie Dewan-Smith, Ms. Lynda Divito, Mr. Mark Andrews, Krystyna Finlayson , Ms. Jessica Forbess, Sarah Gasser, Justin and Oren Stevens, Keith Goldstein, Eileen Grady, Joan & Donald Green, Daryl Anthony Harper, Becky Harris, Margaret and Cory Johnson – UCSF Essential Worker’s Program, Roxy Jones, Ray and Carla Kaliski, Christopher Lee Kuckenbaker, Jonathan Luskin and Leslie Katz, Michael Lutz, Brittany S Mellerson, Three Kurtics and a Morse, Bud & Donna Ogle, Chris Potter & Lisa Mammel, Madeline Daly Puccioni, Matthew Purdon, Donation – Combined, Giving Level, Jim Kleinmann, Lisa R. Taylor, Liam Vincent, Ms. Rosalinde Westil, Christian Wilburn, Janine & Darryl Wilburn, Joanne Chow Winship, Anonymous (3)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Mary E. Baird, Dr. Elaine Baskin, Julie  Birdsong, Gwen and Karen, Nancy Rivera Brooks, Katie Dlesk, Victoria & Philippe Erville, Gina Harris, Derek Kingham, Joanne Kobori, Gregg Le Blanc, Ms. Lisa A. Mammel, Cecily T. Martin, Doug Peckler & Evelyn Jean Pine, Ms. Madeline Daly Puccioni, Kathy J Reynolds, Kary Schulman, Rebecca Schweitzer, Jeunée Simon, Kurt Taylor & BJ Olsen, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Jeffrey Trescott, Kelli Wong, Anonymous (2)

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Linda Amayo-Hassan+, Cass Brayton+, Tom Bruett+, Rachel Bublitz+, Madeleine Butler, Vanessa Cassandras, Reg Clay, Victoria Evans Erville, Jessica Fechtor, Ipsheeta Furtado, Akaina Ghosh, Linda Maria Giron, Garret Jon Groenveld+, Monique Hafen Adams, Sam Hurwitt, Tejahra Jacobs, Lisa Kang, Anne Yumi Kobori, Molly Krost+, Jennifer Le Blanc, Jonathan Luskin+, Christopher Magee, Alanna McFall, Bacilio Mendez II, Isaac Ontiveros+, Conrad Panganiban, Erin Marie Panttaja, Evelyn Jean Pine+, Madeline Puccioni, Neiry Rojo, Kevin Rolston, Annette Roman, Rebecca Schweitzer , Susan Sher, Marissa Skudlarek, Alexis Standridge, Chris Steele, Shruti Tewari, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Eteya Trinidad+, Daysha Veronica+, Madison Wetzell, Christian Wilburn+, Maury Zeff
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PLAYGROUND COMPANY

Molly Aaronson-Gelb, Angel Adedokun, Patrick Alparone, Liz Anderson, Rinabeth Apostol, Michael Asberry, Michael Barrett Austin, Mary Baird, Aldo Billingslea, Giselle Boustani-Fontenele, Millie Brooks, Julia Brothers, Nicole Apostol Bruno, Lizzie Calogero, Ron Campbell, Joy Carlin, Nancy Carlin, Desdemona Chiang, Tessa Corrie, David Cramer, Will Dao, Anne Darragh, Dodds Delzell, Livia Gomes Demarchi, Carolyn Doyle, Nora el Samahy, Rebecca Ennals, Britney Frazier, Michael French, Claire Ganem, Sarah Gasser, Norman Gee, Douglas B. Giorgis, Amy Glazer, Cindy Goldfield, BW Gonzalez, Christian Haines, Margo Hall, Rosie Hallett, Katherine Hamilton, Daryl Anthony Harper, Eric Fraisher Hayes, Brian Herndon, Monica Ho, Laura Humphrey, J Jha, Colin Johnson, Lyndsy Kail, Dean Koya, Danielle Levin, Amy Lizardo, Jeffrey Lo, Gwen Loeb, George Maguire, Melanie Marshall, Alicia Mason, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Julia McNeal, Sam Misner, Brady Morales-Woolery, Lisa Morse, Jasmine Murray, Noble, Joseph Patrick O’Malley, Karen Offereins, Annette Oliveira, Soren Oliver, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Melissa Ortiz, Doyle Ott, June Palladino, Carla Pantoja, Louis Parnell, Jed Parsario, Michael Phillis, Rebecca Pingree, Stephanie Prentice, Ezra Reaves, Virginia Reed, Cathleen Riddley, Katja Rivera, Adrian Roberts, Neiry Rojo, Stacy Ross, Adam Roy, Katie Rubin, Lindsey Marie Schmeltzer, Louel Senores, Robert Sicular, Jeunee Simon, M. Graham Smith, Ken Sonkin, Lauren Spencer, Teddy Spencer, Howard Swain, Jomar Tagatac, Emilie Talbot, Danielle Thys, Isabel Anne To, Jon Tracy, Dane Troy, Mark Rafael Truitt, Liam Vincent, Ian Walker, Maryssa Wanlass, Tracy Ward, Reggie D. White, Aaron Wilton, Elena Wright

PLAYGROUND AMBASSADORS

Jomar Tagatac (Co-Chair) , Aaron Wilton (Co-Chair) , Aldo Billingslea, Tessa Corrie, Livia Demarchi, Britney Frazier, Claire Ganem, Cindy Goldfield, Jeffrey Lo, Gwen Loeb, Brady Morales-Woolery, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Stephanie Prentice, Katja Rivera

PLAYGROUND STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Annie Stuart, Associate Artistic Director
Norman Gee, Associate Producer
Jed Parsario, Associate Producer
Stephanie Prentice, Associate Producer
Katja Rivera, Associate Producer
Jacque Bugler, Production Manager
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager & Assistant to the Artistic Director
Lindsey Abbott, 2021-22 Producing Fellow/Women Leaders Fellow
Daniel Benitez, 2021-22 Producing Fellow
Caroline Portante, 2021-22 Producing Fellow
Wallace Yan, 2021-22 Producing Fellow
Edna Mira Raia, Post Fellow
Lana Richards, Post Fellow
Chris Steele, Post Fellow

PLAYGROUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Regina Guggenheim, Chair
James A. Kleinmann, President
Jerome Joseph Gentes, VP-Communications
Emilie Talbot, VP-Development
Nitin, Treasurer
Katie May, Secretary
William Bivins
Diana Burbano
Eleanor Clement Glass
Lisa Mammel
Rebecca Martinez
Rondrell McCormick
Stephanie Prentice
Katja Rivera
David Steele

www.PlayGround-sf.org
3286 Adeline St #8
Berkeley, CA 94703-2485
info@playground-sf.org
(415) 992-6677